re: Traveling abroad - do they hate us

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Attempted Italian but my accent gives gay country singer so it doesn’t flow well

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1st step is always the hardest. Good on you for admitting it.

I was never a tourist in the Netherlands, only was there on business so I concede that point.

It's Italian but it became popularized as a main dish here. If you went into any restaurant in Italy outside of Naples in the 50s and 60s and ordered a pizza they would look at you like you ordered a bologna sandwich or a grilled cheese.

It's also kind of weird that people talk about modern Italian food as "Old World" and handed down by centuries of grandmas, etc. Pasta and tomato sauce really wasn't a thing there until the 1800s. They had a Mediterranean diet with lots of seafood, dates, olives, etc. Hell, before the Columbian Exchange nobody outside of a few remote villages in South America had ever even seen a tomato, potato or several other food items. Eating was highly localized for most of human civilization.

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I would kill to have an opportunity to try the real deal spaghetti and meatballs in Italy. Not that quick shite they cook in this part of the world. Maybe one day.

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I hate to break it to you, but American Italian is better than Italy Italian.

Nary a problem when I've entered Oklahoma or Louisiana-Mississippi was different - Alabama was fine

That’s either sarcasm or you don’t know what the frick you’re talking about.

That’s crazy wrong

I’d rather not…but didn’t realize you were along for the ride during our times in Europe. Wow!

They know most of this country hates what’s going on so they really aren’t so bad unless you’re walking around with a MAGA hat, in which case you deserve whatever happens to you.

I live in Europe & in almost all cases, people are just people. Stereotypes exist for a reason & Italians being dismissive like that is one I've not heard.

My wife & I were in a restaurant the other day & a German woman just comes up talking to us, asking if we're American. Then she wants to tell us about her vacation to Arizona.

Thinking that this restaurant didn't want to serve you because you're American sounds like the gripes when people don't get their way or their conveniences & claim victim status because of their skin color. Truth is, they're restaurant workers, & were probably just lazy.